be sure to stay with msnbc for continuing coverage as joe biden secures the democratic nomination. all in with chris hayes starts now. tonight, the call for joe biden --

>> another big call for all the networks.>> all of the networks? >> the official clincher for joe biden and the case that his momentum is pointing in the right direction.>> every single penny will go to the number one and only job of the rnc. that is electing donald trump. >> the hallowing out of the american political party. and the front runner's infatuation with strongmen. good evening from europe. it is election night in america. president biden just clinched his party's nomination. we cannot project that joe biden is the presumptive

democratic nominee for president in the year 224. and within a few minutes of proposed closing, he has secured enough votes to cross the threshold for his party's nomination of 1968 delegates. it is apparent that it would be a rematch between donald trump and joe biden. and that will become official when both candidates cross the threshold set by the parties. donald trump needs 1215 delegates. he should make that number later tonight. steve kornacki is at the big board with the latest. steve, tell me where we are? >> in the last couple of minutes , the polls close in mississippi. joe biden has been declared the

winner in mississippi. there are 35 delegates at stake democrats. all of them go to joe biden. what that does nationally is he's at 2012. we saw that one hour go with the initial returns in georgia. i can show you what georgia looks like now. joe biden at nearly 96%. this is consistent with what we've been seeing. it was in georgia that joe biden needed 99 delegates. so one hour ago he crossed the magic number and you see the checkmark and the presumptive nominee designation that went into effect one hour ago. so joe biden is just piling on top of that. will start getting numbers from washington state later. you would expect the same thing there. there are 92 delegates from washington state. joe biden officially clearing the threshold to become the

presumptive nominee. and for donald trump, he's not quite there yet, but we did just declared the winner in mississippi and he gets all 40 delegates that were up for grabs mississippi. and i can show you in georgia about 27% of the vote is in. nikki haley dropped out. her name remains on the ballot so she is still getting 14% of the vote. trump has claimed 52 of the 59 delegates needed. he has claimed 52 of 59. there more to come but they have not been allocated yet. we will see if nikki haley picks up a delegate or two. all of mississippi for trump. that has him at 1181. 34 delegates shy of the threshold of 1215, and that leaves washington state

outstanding on the republican side. the polls will close their at 11:00 p.m. eastern. nikki haley's name is on the ballot, but there 43 delegates and trap at this point only needs about three quarters of them. if you can get more from georgia, it will be less. washington does their voting by mail. a lot of that will be counted and tabulated and released very quickly. if it looks anything like it does in georgia like it does in mississippi, i think you can expect that somewhere around 11, donald trump cross the threshold and that presumptive nominee designation will go there and both parties will have candidates who have delegates locked in committed to voting for them at the convention. if it happens before midnight, it would make this based on that standard, when did each candidate crossed the threshold? the longest general election campaign in history. if it goes

after midnight into tomorrow, it will be tied with the 2004 election. >> now that joe biden is officially the presumptive democratic nominee for president, his reelection campaign begins full force. he will be running primarily on his record. what he has got done over the last four years. the selection is interesting and different. for the first time since 1892, when president benjamin harrison based a rematch of his predecessor, joe biden with a man who did not want to leave. it is one of the most clear-cut apples to apples comparisons. usually one is an incumbent and the other one talks about what they would do. in this case you have two records to compare.

he had an unsuccessful coup, and how are things now? four years later under this president? there's quite a story to tell about the general trajectory of american life the last four years and we have some visually. will show you some charts. generally, you want the good stuff to go up any bad stuff to come down. pretty simple. so this is how that looks. let's start with gdp gross domestic product. that is the value of all goods and services produced in the u.s. it is the size of the economy. and like the rest of the world, we saw a significant drop. this is in 2020, that was the pandemic and that was under donald trump. look at the recovery. look at this.

in fact, the u.s. had the strongest recovery of every country. last year our economy grew faster than any other nation in the g7. when you zoom in a little further showing only the biden years, it's a straight line going up. a lot could've gone wrong. it's hard to pick yourself up after a once a century pandemic. the stock market, the dow plunged. recorded its worst ever dropped in a single day on march 16th, 2020. he was obsessed with the stock market. four years later not only is it back on track, it hit a record high at the end of last month. over the past year, from here to there, getting better. there are a bunch of reasons for this

remarkably economic performance. jobs have bounced back. the percentage of people who are in the labor force is increasing steadily. it hit lows during the pandemic. and then he goes up. new business applications. people starting businesses, in 2023, americans filed by .5 million applications. it was the third year in a row of record-breaking applications for a total of 60 million over the first three years of the biden administration. manufacturing is also booming thanks to a flurry of legislation. more goods being produced in america bringing good paying manufacturing jobs back into the u.s. see how that goes? hospitality jobs have bounced back after plummeting after the

pandemic. not given that the industry would recover. you see it go down, but it travels back. we can see from the numbers of passengers flying on airlines. this is the summer of 2020. up to now. across the board wages are rising. wages are rising in real terms. workers make an average of more than $34 per hour. earnings are outpacing inflation. it means there's more money in american pockets to spend. disposable personal income is one of the most important charts. it took a huge hit. now it is on the right track. having significantly increased in the last few years from down here to up there.

another thing we are doing in the last four years, we are producing more of our own energy. crude oil production, no one in america knows this. crude oil production under joe biden broke records last year. it is outpacing projections in 2024. in fact, we are producing more oil than any other nation ever has at any time ever. you might say, from a climate perspective, it's not great. but renewable power is booming. renewable power generation is also up amid president biden's $370 billion investment in clean energy to the inflation reduction act. remember they named it that? but because of this chart. this is the whole story of last four years. the reason joe biden has faced

political headwinds. inflation has been on a rocky ride since the pandemic. the consumer price index, that's the measurement to change the average price of goods and services hit 9% in summer of 2022 and it was bad. it caused severe financial strain for people in this was a global phenomenon. happened everywhere. but since then, it has come way down. is now at 3%. this was not guaranteed. people were saying we would have to recession or we are walking into catastrophe. none of that has happened. it has come down to 3% and this is better than basically any of our. countries. they would all trade places to be us. the unemployment rate has dropped massively after hitting a spike of nearly 15% in 2020.

bad things happened in 2020 and then they get better after donald trump lease office. over the past couple of years unemployment has been hovering below 4% for an unprecedentedly long period of time. in the past year mortgage rates, which have risen quite a bit have started to come down, which is welcome. we see gas prices drop. remember this story? it was nearly 5 dollars per gallon. you don't see that so much. it is now about 3 dollars per gallon. and, finally, this is one we are obsessed with. there has been a decrease in violent crime under president biden. 2020 was one of the most

dangerous years in america under donald trump. there are more people working and making higher wages. more people starting businesses, more people working in manufacturing. the last year of the last president's term was a nightmare. and because it was a nightmare, it's easy to block out. lookup for the country has come. this is what has been achieved under joe biden and it is the pitch you can expect him to make to voters all this year.

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absolutely. that's why people are furious right now and they see the attacks against him. they feel like it is an attack last --

>> donald trump and his family just took over the republican national city. ronna mcdaniel steps down over the extent to which the committee should act as donald trump's personal slush fund. his daughter-in-law made public what her priorities would be if she got the gig. >> if i'm elected to this position, i can assure you, it will not be anymore $70,000 or whatever exorbitant amount of money that was spent on flowers. every penny will go to the only job of the rnc. that will be electing donald j trump as president of the united states.>> you can guess which side fight he was on. he owes nearly $700 million in civil penalties and he is under the most acute financial stress of his life. there's basically nothing stopping him from busting out

the rnc for his own purposes like a mob boss taking over sporting goods store. last week a resolution to stop that from happening, specifically the plot committee many to go to pay his legal bills died. three days later lara trump inaugurated her tenure yesterday with this email, to give everyone a sense of how things are going. and let's be clear, when it comes to the ex-president were not dealing with men known for delineating between his own finances and pots of money around him. he on multiple occasions rated his charity like a piggy bank. spent money on himself. now is access to an entire political party. joining me is a poster who saw pulling for the dnc and a group

is launching a $59 million campaign to showcase the anti- trump coalition. let me start with you, sarah, with the imprecations. your implication and reaction to the trump take over from the desk of lara trump email going out, the death of the proposal to actually block the committee from paying for legal fees. what does that add up to?>> look, i always feel like we've taken the final step in trump's complete takeover of the republican party, but there is always another step. because he is formally taking over the republican party apparatus here, it started with the resignation of jeff blake and it ends with lara trump controlling the rnc. and this

is -- what trump is doing by firing everyone and installing people who will only do what he wants them to do, that's what he wants to do to the government. he wants to create an entire american government that is at his service. he's running for president to pay off his legal bills and he's trying to get elected president to stay out of jail. is all about him, and the republican party is completely in-service to that. what is crazy about this is that is money that he's draining from other republican candidates. there are down ticket races where people need money and the rnc is only there singularly preterm.>> you have worked in a official capacity. i should not overstate the case. the nominee always kinds of take over the party apparatus. when the incumbent president is

barack obama, the dnc, it's not separate from him. there is always a synergy. but this notion that it only exists, that every penny should be spent for electing donald trump and also to pay his legal bills, but is it mean for the rest of what a party apparatus actually does in an election? >> i have to underline what my friend on the other side just laid out. this is a big deal. historically when historians write about politics of this era, this will be an important section. the political parties, whether it is the dnc or rnc, they are an arm of the party. with the dnc we focused on the present, but we also focused on state races and congressional races. we were building a bid to

strengthen the party. what donald trump has basically done is he has some all of that out, and he has made this historical organization about strengthening and building up the republican party, he has made focused on just him. that is a big deal. if i am a down and out republican, and i look at them gutting the rnc, you know it to be doing? they will not be gutting the dnc, they will be building it and growing it out. they will also help democrats up and down the ballot. is very good for donald trump,

the docket for grassroots republicans. and why on earth if you are grassroot conservative, why would you give money to them when it is specifically just about donald trump? >> it will be interesting to see how that works and what fundraising looks like just cut out the middleman and write him a check directly. also to your point of understanding this transformation, the news today that the house freedom caucus member, ken >> , increasingly sort of at odds with the particularities of the maga personalities, he announced that he's leaving. like now. did not even give mike johnson a heads-up. his majority will grow smaller. he can only afford to lose two votes. it seems that this is not unrelated to the precisely same forces that are leading to the

rnc being taken over in this fashion.>> what struck me about ken >>'s resignation is how mad he was. he said i am out of here. he even imperils lauren boebert and she's trying to switch districts to run in his. and so this is him being done with the party. he gave mike johnson no notice, and i'm surprised there are not more of these resignations. have been an increasing number of people looking at the next couple of years and you do see some republicans walking way, especially people like mike gallagher. i don't know how any of these republican stay in office, anyone who is a serious legislator because what is coming has nothing to do with the party that they once joined and nothing they are going to accomplish will be serious.

there will be people acting at donald trump's beckon call and there are more and more people who act like matt gaetz and lauren boebert and i think a few more people to follow him out the door and let the democrats do things. >> there are a bunch of pink slips handed out at the rnc. is an ideological purge. how much does institutional knowledge a place like that matter? >> is all about connections and networks. we built up a team and it was can you get on the phone with the county director in georgia, mississippi.

it is all about connections and building those networks and having people trust you. and also spreading money and resources down ballot to these places with the money helps build a party and helps build up down-ballot races. it's not all about the top of the ticket. if you do that, you will rot away the party. when i see them gutting the party at the exact same time when the race is going to be pitched forward, i think -- nothing good can come of this. >> thank you both. i appreciate it. the disconnect between what donald trump says and what his supporters think.

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donald trump has been acting the same way since he left the oval office. insanity, incoherence that comes from him daily has been out of constant public view focused media attention. tonight, he will clinch delegates he needs to officially be the presumptive republican nominee. as i made the case on the show, we need to report on what he's doing and saying. let's take the last few days. on saturday he repeatedly defamed e. jean carroll, the

woman that a jury found him liable for attacking and then liable for defaming her. in interview yesterday he talked about cutting social security and medicare. he pledged that one of his first acts the president would be releasing violent criminals to the streets. to free hundreds of people from the armed mob that helped him try to pull off the coup on january 6. this has just been four days and soon to be the presumptive republican nominee for president. the new york times has been tracking this. what do you think about the strategic genius of repeatedly defaming a woman who in a civil jury found you liable for sexually abusing? >> it seems like he's playing with fire. and he's playing with fire with

a lot of this. openly speaking of releasing the january 6th people convicted you know, one of the things that is underrated about this 2016 performance, he repudiated some things he said he would not cut social security. it has been interesting watching him the last few weeks turn on that and reverse that. the question as to whether or not voters will believe him, which is the strange thing about him. you can believe some things he says and about some things they dismiss certain things. select the biden/harris campaign jumped on that.

and this points to something you said in your column. if you read the paragraph where he talks about that in the interview, you cannot make heads or tails of it. and this speaks to something. it's the clichi in journalism is the dog bites man is not a story, man bites dog is a story. if there is a guy who goes around biting dogs all the time, maybe that ceases to become news. this is the situation and you say he benefits from something akin soft bigotry of low expectations for no and expects him to be responsible political figure. it says if no one blinks an eye when he rants and raves the campaign trail.>> exactly what i wrote. it is precisely because there's this general expectation that he is just incapable of behaving as normal politician.

and when he does these things, which are objectively worrisome -- it feels crazy to say this, he was president of the united states for 4 years. his behavior was actively detrimental, particularly when there's a global pandemic that killed a lot of people. it was a problem that the president was the kind of person who rants and raves incoherently and cannot seem to focus on anything in particular. as far as what i wrote, no one expects him to do anything different. it seems boring to have to pointed out, but it is quite significant. >> i was struck by the pledge now to release the january 6th people convicted and imprisoned for their role in the bile attack on the capitol to take

american democracy away from americans. i don't think free the january 6 hostages will pull particularly well, but i'm curious to see how it plays out and whether displaceable and mighty people of an episode that a certain portion of the electorate has kind put in the back of their minds.>> it is so early in this process, and this campaign. it's hard to see how things will play out. i have a sense that the former president will continue to speak in this way, it will only bolster the biden campaign's attempt to remind people what the country was in 2020. that will be so much of the campaign approach of the biden campaign. there has been this amnesia about that 12 month period of

the pandemic in january 6. trump continuously speaking in this way will serve to help remind voters that he's culpable in this insurrection and people were tried and convicted and they behave violently and it is something that should not be entertained. >> i have not seen a lot of campaigns in which a person pledges to release criminals on the first day. thank you very much. still to come, as trump praises viktor orban, we will talk about his infatuation with strongmen. the first, the brush of disinformation from the right about immigration. how to sort through what it means for november.

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blame joe biden's current board policy for it. she was criticized by journalist and by the survivor herself. >> i hardly ever cooperate with politicians because it seems to me they only want an image. she should first take into account what really happens before telling a story of that magnitude. >> that was good advice that republicans refused to take. her story appropriated by katie britt. the claims were wildly misleading. she implied it is happening now because joe biden's border policy? here is the thing. has gotten a lot of attention. is dime a dozen when it comes to right-wing immigrant fear mongering. remember this guy? he's from venezuela. he was the focus of the right-wing media's

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is flipping off america. it went from foxnews to a political ad cut by a pro trump super pac. and then, guess what happened? manhattan prosecutors dropped the charges against him. they told the judge that approved that back of, who would always professed his innocence did not participate in the attacking question. they misidentified him. they got the wrong guy. he did not do it. have you seen coverage of that? have they run 84 segments on fox news about that? the myth of mike lacrosse has become a war and they will do it over and over again. whether it is false rumors about a caravan or the guardian angels wailing on a man they claimed was a thief when he was neither. he was an american who had not

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need of funding. that funding is being blocked by one man whose not in government, donald trump. a man who last friday happened to be hosting hungarian leader, afterwards he gave an interview praising trumpet making it clear trumps policy as president would be to start ukraine until it surrendered russia. trump will not give a penny in the ukraine russian war, that's why it will end because it's obvious ukraine cannot stand on his feet. if america does not give money and weapons than the war is over. trump responded immediately. he might do the bidding of russian president volodymyr putin but the price he got from a fellow tough guy. >> i just had victor or bond, a tough man who is at my place in florida i get along with them very well friendly but i have respect for him. he made the statement he said we will solve the problems of

the world if donald trump comes back. russia was afraid of him, china was afraid of him, we had no problems whatsoever under trump. >> no problems, whatsoever. he likes me. democratic from the medicaid and he joins me now. is it your understanding that this is the basic dynamic care? singularly donald trump wants to use his influence of the republican party to cut off funding for ukraine so they have to essentially surrender to vladimir putin. >> i think that is plain as day. this bill that the senate passed, with 70 votes, that would keep ukraine in the fight for the next year is being blocked in the house for one reason only. donald trump has told his allies that they will pay a price personally with him if they support it. we know that ukraine would be able to bring the fight to russia, would stop russia from

being able to win this war if donald trump wasn't singularly opposing it. of course the stakes here are enormous, whether he knows it or not. putin is not likely to stop at ukraine and the only thing maybe preventing the usa from being in war with russia. that means u.s. troops, men and women from this country fighting and dying in europe is helping ukraine win this war. >> announcement from the white house essentially trying to come up with a workaround gap as ukraine waits for the aid to be okay. they will send $300 million of weapon to ukraine and keep advancing russia troops at bay for a few weeks. i guess what is the read on the hill? it seems very opaque to me. there are 300+ votes for the senate bill in the house. if and when mike johnston brings it he loses his job as speaker and incurs the wrath of donald trump.

that is been equilibrium for two weeks and nothing has really moved. >> i think it's a really open question for what happens with mike johnson if he brings ukraine up for a vote. it would pass for flying colors and i don't know that we should assume the republican conference has the appetite for another leadership fight they don't have an alternative and they maybe aren't so politically dumb to put themselves into that quagmire on the precipice of a general election. i'm not even sure donald trump wants that. i think the speaker should govern with a little more confidence than he does today. i think he's trying to get through this next round of budget negotiations. we have to keep the government open and operating. if you brought the ukraine built up for a vote on the

heels of passing a budget i think he would get the votes for it and i don't think he would get the contest for leadership that he thinks because donald trump doesn't want that fight. he knows that would drown the republican party and him and the controversy that ultimately doesn't help any of them. >> if there's a motion to vacate i'm not sure if democrats would go along with that. they may abstain from that but there's also the fact they are down to this very narrow majority. i'm not even sure, unless you can make sure all you members of their you and if in a situation with jeffries. they're operating on thin margins and it seems like, as i metabolize what you say, you don't want to deal with that situation. >> but i also think that the speaker has to come to terms with the fact he's going to be a short-term speaker one way or the other. even if they win the election, maybe by a narrow margin, he

won't survive long. it's likely democrats win control of the house. so he's writing his legacy, political obituary will lead with the question of what he did in regards to ukraine. public statements from what i understand privately, he is very worried about the fact that could be his defining legacy that putin owns ukraine that becomes a russian city and world war iii erupts when putin moves forward into a nato country. so that's weighing heavily on him and that may be what ends up in him deciding to call the ukraine bill up for a vote shortly after we fund the government. >> if we say no to the x president viktor orban he went back to spell out trumps desire to help putin but also trump talking about explicitly orban as the model.

he is the boss and what he says goes. what do you think of that? >> i think sometimes we get a little lecture about the virtues of democracy and assume everyone is all in on the project. i believe there's an actual conversation in the country whether democracy is actually working for regular people or if it's permanently captured by elites to make money for billionaires and corporations. i want my party to spend less time lecturing people about democracy and laughing off the praise that donald trump is praising viktor orban. and in the meantime big plans to transfer power from the elites to regular people as a means of showing democracy can work for them. i don't think we should assume the people in this country will be in for democracy for the next 50 years if it continues to consolidate wealth and power in the hands of the elites. we better be wise to